Banded Kestrel and RTX A40 - video card comparison

Banded Kestrel

RTX A40

Architecture

GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Banded Kestrel

GA102

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

October 2020

Interface

-

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

-

1755 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

4,940 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

-

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

589.7

Memory type

-

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

-

48 GB

Memory bus width

-

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

14.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

-

695.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

-

3x DisplayPort

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

2.1

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.0

6.5

Vulkan

1.2

1.2